In 1986, road crews repairing 30-year-old pavement on the route between Caracas and its airport spotted a 50-yard smudge of greasy black gunk. It looked like chewed bubble gum, made the road slick as ice, and swelled in hot, wet weather, then shrank when things turned cold and dry. — Read the rest
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Completed in 1981, the striking Hill Road Flyover was designed to alleviate traffic congestion in the Shek Tong Tsui neighborhood by providing a bypass from the hillside directly down to the harbour. The flyover is, at parts, 5 or 6 storeys above Hill Road below, traveling 650 meters from its start on Pok Fu Lam Road, snaking down to Connaught Road West.
Despite being relatively brief, the…
Photo by Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press 1,148 words The Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team were bound for a playoff game in Nipawin, Saskatchewan on April 6, 2018. The team rode their bus alongside coaches and other staff. With their hockey bags and equipment stowed in the cargo hold, their bus drove down one of Saskatchewan’s […]